Protective mother movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant protective mother movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, disturbing and feel good films and TV shows about / with protective mother, family relations, mother daughter relationship, teenager, love, kiss, couples, mother, female protagonist and single mother plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as protective mother: Hubie Halloween (2020), Meddling Mom (2012), Dear Mom (2014), Anything for Love (1997), A Royal Runaway Romance (2022), Call Your Mother (2021), Mary Reilly (1996), Your Place or Mine (2023), Her Desperate Choice (1996), Serial Mom (1994).

List of protective mother movies

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Hubie Halloween (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Hubie Dubois who, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to ...
Style: funny, feel good, spooky, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bullying, halloween, halloween party, bully, supernatural, single mother, prank, boy scout, protective mother, small town, society, small town life ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: salem massachusetts
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 4.6
 328
Meddling Mom (2012)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Take Carmen Vega downtown and book her! Carmen (Sonia Braga) is guilty as charged of scheming with her two best friends, Marisol and Valeria (Rose Abdoo and Saundra Santiago) to stick her nose in everything in her two adult daughter’s lives. From ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, feel good, exciting
Plot: dinner, male bonding, in laws, ritual, party, protective mother, overprotective mother, mother and daughter, single mother, couples, daughter, love ...
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 6.9
 13
Dear Mom (2014)
Genre: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Feng-Yi (Hsueh-Feng Lu) is a self-sacrificing mother who works tirelessly to support her four grown daughters in their life endeavors.
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, feel good
Plot: mother, large family, protective mother, mother and daughter, family life, sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, sibling relationship, sister, daughter, mother daughter relationship
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Anything for Love (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe ...
Style: soap opera, novela, reflective, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, secret, love, family relations, love affair, destiny, relationships, twists and turns, parents and children, life is a bitch, lie, protective mother ...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
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A Royal Runaway Romance (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Princess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady.
Plot: royalty, romantic reunion, bare chested male, wedding anniversary, cocktail party, queen, princess, fictitious kingdom, cross country trip, protective mother, road trip, birthday ...
Place: europe, nebraska, chicago, los angeles
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Call Your Mother (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: An empty-nester mom wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides her place is with her family and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need ...
Style: sitcom, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Plot: kids and family, young adult, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, relationships, life, family relations, humour, lifestyle, teenager, teenage life, protective mother ...
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 5.8
 16K
Mary Reilly (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Style: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, servant, mad scientist, laboratory, prostitute, dual identity, master and servant, dangerous attraction, power relations, devil, secrets, insanity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 90s, year 1996, 1880s
Place: scotland, london
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Your Place or Mine (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.
Style: romantic comedy, feel good, psychological, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: friends in love, best friend, love, male female relationship, love affair, opposites attract, couple relations, lifestyle change, love interest, changing lives, mother son relationship, couples ...
Time: 2020s
Place: los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new york, california
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Her Desperate Choice (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Despite allegations of sexual abuse against her ex-husband, Jody (Faith Ford) has lost a custody battle for Samantha (Hanna Hall) and faces a choice of turning her daughter over to him, or taking flight and risking kidnapping charges. Pursued by ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: on the run, private investigator, youth, age difference, child abuse, mother daughter relationship, fugitive, divorced parents, small town, private detective, veterinarian, support ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: massachusetts
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 6.8
 32K
Serial Mom (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the ...
Style: dark comedy, parody, black comedy, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, dysfunctional family, murder, housewife, suburbs, suburban life, female killer, female psychopath, police investigation, violence, farce ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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The New Girlfriend (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A romantic story of young love is not what it seems. Rachel meets Matt on his way home from school. Matt falls for her, but Rachel has other ideas. Rachel and her boyfriend Nick use Matt to exact a revenge on his parents. What follows is an ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: revenge, theft, drowning, woman with a gun, obsession, vengeance, suburbs, swimming pool, female on male rape, rape and revenge, harassment, feud ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
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Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style: realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, teenage protagonist, diagnosis, hearing voices, high school, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting, supportive parent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: oregon, brazil
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Reporting for Duty (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When Suzano assumes the role of police chief at a new precinct, the timid newbie will have to prove his mettle to his fearless squad.
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, sitcom, detective
Plot: police officer, investigation, satire, workplace, police investigation, changing lives, workplace situations, male female relationship, transgender woman, seductive man, evil child, lgbt ...
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 7.6
 10K
Special (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.
Style: humorous, captivating, ironic, psychological, sex comedy ...
Plot: cerebral palsy, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay lead character, lgbtqi, lifestyle, deception, irony, woman, glbt, dance teacher ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 606
Her Way (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, financial problem, life is a bitch, blind ambition, social problems, female protagonist, money problems, family relations, overprotective mother, female nudity ...
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Cherry Blossoms After Winter (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: The death of his parents forces a seven-year-old boy named Seo Hae Bom to move in with an adoptive family who have a young son of the same age named Jo Tae Seong. Seo Hae Bom is in awe of Jo Tae Seong – he considers the boy to be everything that ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay love, gay teenager, teenage life, teenager, couple relations, relationships, japanese school, relationship problems, lgbtq, slice of life ...
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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mother, revenge, vengeance, murder, female masturbation, children, home invasion, drug, female warrior, crime solving, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
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 6.8
 338K
Us (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Style: surprise ending, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, doppelganger, murder, amusement park, panic, african american, evil twin, childhood memory, husband wife relationship, traumatic childhood, black family, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, year 2019, 80s
Place: usa, california
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 6.5
 168K
Halloween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 152K
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
Style: funny, computer animated, colorful, light, sweet ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: minion, twin brother, happy ending, fantasy world, prison, prison escape, villain, brother brother relationship, fired from the job, twins, kidnapping, siblings ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: california
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She's Too Young (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sexually transmitted disease, teenage sexuality, teenage life, parents and children, high school life, society, lifestyle, suburban life, kids in trouble, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 2K
Marathon (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 20-years-old Cho-Won (Cho Seung-Woo) is young man with autism. He lives with his highly protective mother Kyung-Sook (Kim Mi-Sook) and younger brother (Baek Sung-Hyun), who sometimes resents the attention his older brother receives from his mother. ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, disability, running, marathon, family relations, athlete's life, young heroes, against the odds, hopes, social misfits, supportive parent, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
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 6.2
 505
The Cold Lands (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woods, youth, coming of age, isolation, escapades, losing-it hero, runaway, single mother, fear, child protagonist, loss of mother, orphan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, new york state
Is relevant ?
 5.6
 90K
New Year's Eve (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The lives of several couples and singles in New York intertwine over the course of New Year's Eve.
Style: romantic, light, romantic comedy, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: new year, multiple storylines, new year's eve, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, starting over, hopes, christmas, teenager, winter, love story ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a little known 1848 novel by Anne Bronte, Tara Fitzgerald stars as an enigmatic young woman who moves to 19th Century Yorkshire with a young son. Distancing herself from everyone in the village and their prying questions, she remains ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, gothic, serious ...
Plot: english countryside, mathematics, troubled marriage, domestic abuse, literary, happy ending, new beginning, novelist, mansion, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: yorkshire, britain
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 815
Girls Town (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, women, high school, suicide, coming of age, teenage love, righting the wronged, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, human nature, death of friend, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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 7.6
 358K
The Blind Side (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Oversized African-American, Michael Oher, the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: american football, adoption, life, african american, human spirit, family drama, christian, interracial relations, football, rising to stardom, racism, interracial adoption ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee, america, boston, mississippi ...
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 2K
X-Men (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: X-Men, still grieving over the death of Phoenix (Jean Grey), are investigating a case of a missing mutant girl in Northern Japan. This leads them to a mysterious virus that turns mutants into monsters. U-Men and the Inner Circle want it.
Style: anime, serious, stylized, suspenseful, saga
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: superhero, mutant, regeneration, imaginary, supernatural, illusion, danger, good versus evil, rivalry, escapades, genetically altered, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, asia
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 2K
Rock Haven (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay love, gay teenager, male nudity, lgbt, teenage life, gay relationship, family relations, friendship, church, forbidden love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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